Every minute spent watching these is a minute not spent watching the expensive pro stuff.
There is a serious glut of entertainment out there. More than we could ever consume in 10 lifetimes now. And every day another week of material is created.
As the inexpensive or free stuff grows, it is crowding out the expensive stuff heavily laden with commercials.
For me, it's more likely to crowd out cable than movie theaters. I can't duplicate the experience of sitting with 500 enthusiastic people on the first few nights. I can't duplicate the experience of the huge screen (tho I can come close).
One of the interesting problems a friend of mine in the food industry deals with is duplicate social security numbers combined with duplicate first and last names.
At some restaurants every one of the half dozen servers as the same first and last name.
Oh.. and sometimes their social security numbers are not consistent from week to week either.
Giampaolo Giuliani, a researcher at Italy's Gran Sasso laboratory, alerted authorities in the region of Abruzzo that a quake was imminent " and was condemned for raising a false...
Hitting people is illegal. Unless we as a society decide it's okay (boxing, ultimate fighting, etc. etc. etc.). And occasionally people even die there... and it's not treated as murder. The boxer who killed the other boxer doesn't go to prison.
Yes, but if you have never pirated a movie, the odds of them suing you is lowered to at least 50/50.
Now, if you were dead or were a network printer or didn't own a computer , it might be 75% but if you are alive, own a computer, and never ever download anything your odds of being sued are quite low- at least not above 50%.
--- seriously... and I've been saying this a while. It's ILLEGAL and you can get sued. Do it because you think it's moral but never forget it is illegal or you'll be that stupid dude calling the cops because someone vandalized his pot farm.
Unless the manager knows the company will go bankrupt if they fire you, they'll kill the company rather than admit you are irreplaceable. I've seen companies pay a million bucks to PROVE that a $50k employee wasn't irreplaceable.
Your best option is do your best and FAIL at the web server jobs because you don't have those skills. You absolutely don't want to be the IT person at a company like that. You'll be working nights, weekends and holidays while everyone else is drinking at the bar partying.
Because doing stocks for 20 minute increments is probably like CDO's and all these other types of things that return money 99.999% of the time and lose terribly.001% of the time.
Bad news happens randomly. Series of bad investments happen randomly.
Several places have reported that GS makes money because they see the bids coming IN and buy the stock and sell it to the person trying to buy stock- it's called front running and when humans do it, it's illegal.
If quant is so good- then like everything else that was good, it will become more common.
If it really is that good, then people will eventually stop playing the game.
* every positive attitude * identify critical vs non-critical * fail to meet deadlines * do quality work otherwise
Management is blind to your true capability- they will walk you over a cliff. They are taught until things start failing, the staff isn't really at capacity yet. And that's true. It's the only real way to know. People bitch and complain and then go back to browsing and posting on slashdot.
Thanks for the suggestions. Their solution at this time is to stop all development on the application and replace it with a package within 2 years. At this point we have no solid.net resources so it would be outside contractors who did the work.
Uninsured patients, those who don't qualify for assistance, or those insured with companies that don't have a contractual agreement with the hospital are charged the full charge master rates. FamiliesUSA, a grassroots advocacy group for health care consumers, estimated in a March 2007 report that nationwide, insurance companies' discounts can range from 40 percent to 60 percent off the standard fee.
John Inserra, an Omaha lawyer who has represented claimants in insurance cases, said the ruling highlights the disparities rampant in the health care system. "The judge hit the nail on the head," Inserra said. "He basically said: Yes, I agree that this is unfair, but I can't do anything about it, so take the fight where it belongs."
And from the horses mouth... http://www.healthplanone.com/catastrophic-health-insurance.aspx The contracts that health insurance carriers have with physicians, hospitals, lab companies and other medical providers are very substantial. Hospital discounts often equate to 60% of charges, physician discounts can be 50%, and lab discounts can be 90% of charges. These are huge savings that a covered individual will enjoy, and an uninsured individual will not.
And a consumer law site... http://www.consumerlaw.org/issues/seniors_initiative/medical_debt.shtml Hospital and providers' willingness to reduce bills is largely due to a phenomenon in health care pricing called "cost-shifting." Cost-shifting results when hospitals and other medical providers concede huge discounts to third-party payers such as HMOs and Medicare/Medicaid. Because of these discounts, the providers attempt to shift many of their costs onto the shoulders of "self-payers" (i.e., the uninsured or underinsured.) The shocking consequence is that a medical provider/creditor may charge a low income, uninsured patient two or three times what it accepts as payment from private insurers.
While looking for these links, I came across quit a bit of evidence that people have been working on this discount issue for a while (since 2004 at least) along the same lines. Judges are saying, "it's legal so get the law changed".
I think it is terrible that the same exact procedure and care would cost a person who lacked insurance (most likely poor or unemployed) three times the price charged for a person with insurance.
Even the article post admits that at 18", the dpi is retina resolution.
Getting out my yardstick and holding my cell phone at a comfortable distance to touch the screen with my other hand, I get 16 to 18" distances. I'm 6'5" tall so perhaps this is a little less for others.
How do you *use* the ipod.
Hell, if we put the ipod over your eye, you can't even see the entire display and probably can't focus on it.
No consumer without insurance should have to pay over 25% above the least expensive(most discounted) price.
A 25% swing in prices is reasonable. Heck, even a 100% swing in prices perhaps. But A 1000% swing in prices- which are only charged to 5% of the customers- which basically make insurance required - which basically means jobs are thinly disquised slavery- is unreasonable.
Which is the real price? The price 99% pay ($75) or the 'rack rate' that the public pays?
Rather than have a big national health care plan Obama should have just required that the uninsured could not be required to pay more than 25% over what the least expensive insurance company rate was.
Seriously, one of my gf's had a $5 charge for a "full rate $580" test recently. Just crazy.
Something which previously worked on an event stopped working and require manual intervention. It was minor but it raised concerns. We now test every patch prior to installation because we can't afford to lose this software until the replacement is in place.
As far as being written for or against specification- how can you *ever* validate that is true in a project that took twelve people multiple years to write? It doesn't matter if it is against specification now- a decade later in some area we have no clue about. It has to keep working for another couple years. There is a lot of risk around it.
If there had been a VB7, the company would have upgraded the software when it came out. But that wasn't an option.
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I watch more and more things like this.
Every minute spent watching these is a minute not spent watching the expensive pro stuff.
There is a serious glut of entertainment out there. More than we could ever consume in 10 lifetimes now. And every day another week of material is created.
As the inexpensive or free stuff grows, it is crowding out the expensive stuff heavily laden with commercials.
For me, it's more likely to crowd out cable than movie theaters. I can't duplicate the experience of sitting with 500 enthusiastic people on the first few nights. I can't duplicate the experience of the huge screen (tho I can come close).
One of the interesting problems a friend of mine in the food industry deals with is duplicate social security numbers combined with duplicate first and last names.
At some restaurants every one of the half dozen servers as the same first and last name.
Oh.. and sometimes their social security numbers are not consistent from week to week either.
Hard to believe.. but true!
http://politifi.com/news/Can-radon-gas-leaks-predict-earthquakes--416169.html
Giampaolo Giuliani, a researcher at Italy's Gran Sasso laboratory, alerted authorities in the region of Abruzzo that a quake was imminent " and was condemned for raising a false...
Exactly
Hitting people is illegal. Unless we as a society decide it's okay (boxing, ultimate fighting, etc. etc. etc.). And occasionally people even die there... and it's not treated as murder. The boxer who killed the other boxer doesn't go to prison.
And what are my options in a low calorie bomb?
Tho I suppose then the hawks will say, "We've come all this way since world war II and all you can offer me is a lite bomb!?!"
sort of like the sound canceling headphones do?
I'm sure you couldn't cancel the sound completely but could you mute it?
Have a speaker every 100' or so that transmits the reverse wave at the appropriate volume?
Dumb idea for some reason?
This is what the corporations got through against U.S. contract programmers back in the 80's.
For the best, they still contract but end up giving 10% (or more) extra overhead to a fake company which didn't get them the job.
For the rest, they were forced to become salarymen. And working conditions and prestige have declined ever since.
Yes, but if you have never pirated a movie, the odds of them suing you is lowered to at least 50/50.
Now, if you were dead or were a network printer or didn't own a computer , it might be 75% but if you are alive, own a computer, and never ever download anything your odds of being sued are quite low- at least not above 50%.
---
seriously... and I've been saying this a while. It's ILLEGAL and you can get sued. Do it because you think it's moral but never forget it is illegal or you'll be that stupid dude calling the cops because someone vandalized his pot farm.
This is absolutely true.
Unless the manager knows the company will go bankrupt if they fire you, they'll kill the company rather than admit you are irreplaceable.
I've seen companies pay a million bucks to PROVE that a $50k employee wasn't irreplaceable.
Your best option is do your best and FAIL at the web server jobs because you don't have those skills.
You absolutely don't want to be the IT person at a company like that. You'll be working nights, weekends and holidays while everyone else is drinking at the bar partying.
Because doing stocks for 20 minute increments is probably like CDO's and all these other types of things that return money 99.999% of the time and lose terribly .001% of the time.
Bad news happens randomly. Series of bad investments happen randomly.
Several places have reported that GS makes money because they see the bids coming IN and buy the stock and sell it to the person trying to buy stock- it's called front running and when humans do it, it's illegal.
If quant is so good- then like everything else that was good, it will become more common.
If it really is that good, then people will eventually stop playing the game.
5gb is reasonable.
At 500mb, there is no point in risking using the service.
I've had much better luck with "sacred garden" (and vulgar words) than with "vulva".
Tho my sample size is too small to be sure. I must increase the sample size.
I don't have time to link it...but there is an early cool XKCD about looking at the sky and seeing there is a pixel misdisplaying.
I knew it!
There is a hole in the display!
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1680926&cid=32519388
The best solution is graceful failure.
Elements include
* every positive attitude
* identify critical vs non-critical
* fail to meet deadlines
* do quality work otherwise
Management is blind to your true capability- they will walk you over a cliff. They are taught until things start failing, the staff isn't really at capacity yet. And that's true. It's the only real way to know. People bitch and complain and then go back to browsing and posting on slashdot.
Thanks for the suggestions. Their solution at this time is to stop all development on the application and replace it with a package within 2 years. .net resources so it would be outside contractors who did the work.
At this point we have no solid
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Third+Circuit+approves+higher+hospital+fees+for+uninsured+patients.-a0186014547
Uninsured patients, those who don't qualify for assistance, or those insured with companies that don't have a contractual agreement with the hospital are charged the full charge master rates. FamiliesUSA, a grassroots advocacy group for health care consumers, estimated in a March 2007 report that nationwide, insurance companies' discounts can range from 40 percent to 60 percent off the standard fee.
John Inserra, an Omaha lawyer who has represented claimants in insurance cases, said the ruling highlights the disparities rampant in the health care system. "The judge hit the nail on the head," Inserra said. "He basically said: Yes, I agree that this is unfair, but I can't do anything about it, so take the fight where it belongs."
And from the horses mouth...
http://www.healthplanone.com/catastrophic-health-insurance.aspx
The contracts that health insurance carriers have with physicians, hospitals, lab companies and other medical providers are very substantial. Hospital discounts often equate to 60% of charges, physician discounts can be 50%, and lab discounts can be 90% of charges. These are huge savings that a covered individual will enjoy, and an uninsured individual will not.
And a consumer law site...
http://www.consumerlaw.org/issues/seniors_initiative/medical_debt.shtml
Hospital and providers' willingness to reduce bills is largely due to a phenomenon in health care pricing called "cost-shifting." Cost-shifting results when hospitals and other medical providers concede huge discounts to third-party payers such as HMOs and Medicare/Medicaid. Because of these discounts, the providers attempt to shift many of their costs onto the shoulders of "self-payers" (i.e., the uninsured or underinsured.) The shocking consequence is that a medical provider/creditor may charge a low income, uninsured patient two or three times what it accepts as payment from private insurers.
While looking for these links, I came across quit a bit of evidence that people have been working on this discount issue for a while (since 2004 at least) along the same lines. Judges are saying, "it's legal so get the law changed".
I think it is terrible that the same exact procedure and care would cost a person who lacked insurance (most likely poor or unemployed) three times the price charged for a person with insurance.
The screen doesn't even have a hole in it!
And who wants to look at a rectum all day anyway.
And I shudder at the thought of prodding the screen with my finger-- at least if I'm not wearing a vinyl glove!
They'll never sell any product with a display like that on it.
Those people at Apples are real sickos!
Oh.. Retina?
never mind...
God, what an arguement about nothing.
Even the article post admits that at 18", the dpi is retina resolution.
Getting out my yardstick and holding my cell phone at a comfortable distance to touch the screen with my other hand, I get 16 to 18" distances. I'm 6'5" tall so perhaps this is a little less for others.
How do you *use* the ipod.
Hell, if we put the ipod over your eye, you can't even see the entire display and probably can't focus on it.
I could be snarky but I won't.
You are saying exactly the same thing I did.
No consumer without insurance should have to pay over 25% above the least expensive(most discounted) price.
A 25% swing in prices is reasonable. Heck, even a 100% swing in prices perhaps. But A 1000% swing in prices- which are only charged to 5% of the customers- which basically make insurance required - which basically means jobs are thinly disquised slavery- is unreasonable.
It is like insurance prices.
$75 for a test that costs you $750.
Which is the real price? The price 99% pay ($75) or the 'rack rate' that the public pays?
Rather than have a big national health care plan Obama should have just required that the uninsured could not be required to pay more than 25% over what the least expensive insurance company rate was.
Seriously, one of my gf's had a $5 charge for a "full rate $580" test recently. Just crazy.
Ah, no it's not in WIn7.
It's in WinXP. It could be broken by any new patch now.
We don't have win7 yet.
It looks like the application will not install or run in win7. It runs in winxp mode with issues.
Sigh.. and I think your cleverness was also missed.
Your post's double redundancy was eminently if redundantly funny.
Something which previously worked on an event stopped working and require manual intervention.
It was minor but it raised concerns. We now test every patch prior to installation because we can't afford to lose this software until the replacement is in place.
As far as being written for or against specification- how can you *ever* validate that is true in a project that took twelve people multiple years to write? It doesn't matter if it is against specification now- a decade later in some area we have no clue about. It has to keep working for another couple years. There is a lot of risk around it.
If there had been a VB7, the company would have upgraded the software when it came out. But that wasn't an option.
I agree. There are parts which should not be in Java. Especially areas which are changing constantly.
However for basic business rules and for data validation which can't be performed by the database automatically, java is a solid option.
Generic java runs everywhere without recoding. PC to mainframe.